Ushi No Tane - Harvest Moon

I hate Addam's voice.
The voice itself is fine if I'm just listening, but it looks completely wrong coming out of that character...to me they just completely don't go together. Every time I watch him while he talks, I have a complete mental disconnect from the situation.

There are gold ones, now. Do collection points be gold when the character you're controlling is an expert in that type? (Like mineralogy, ectomology, etc.) Or is it denoting a spot with rare items in it?

You have to break and then topple 5 enemies. For it to count, you must inflict Topple with the character you're controlling. As far as I can tell, only one of my drivers CAN inflict Topple so I am playing as them right now, and I've done that twice...but neither added to my total. I don't get it. EDIT: Nope. Someone else is stealing the opportunity to Topple before I can get to it, even though I do it right away. But none of the other drivers have Topple listed as an effect on any of their attacks! Really confused...

Play as Lora, break and then switch to Jin who can topple as soon as he's active. I completed this quest on the group of three enemies close to the airship on Torna. By the time you get to the 3rd enemy, Addam/Mythra have exhausted their skills and you can topple away with no interruptions.

I managed to get 3/5 done by controlling Hugo (dang Jin is fast with Topple if you have those guys under 'concentrate on physical attacks'). I'm confused though...they're specifically Driver arts, so why is Jin, a Blade, the one doing it? Oh well, the why doesn't matter, I guess, as long as it gets done.

Recently had to turn my game to Easy after 12+ hours on Normal as I was outleveling my enemy by 5 and still getting wiped in one blow at a certain point...I couldn't even figure it out, so after 3 attempts at the same enemy, I decided to just switch it to Easy so I could get on with the story since it was at what I consider to be a big pick up in events. This felt like the first true 'boss battle' of the game, and...well I won't say why the difficulty spike was so insane, but OUCH.

Seeing what the nodes are for (veggies, wood, ect)
Being able to toggle off enemy aggro right away (except the unique monsters)
Adding new blade combo finishers to stand in for stronger ones

You can warp right to Hoary Weald Campsite...there's a point there...I got exactly what I was looking for from that spot. There's also one sort of beneathe that, but you'll have to do some walking...it's near a field skill point..some miasma...that has some rare stuff in it.

EDIT: There also exists in the game a thing that means that side-quests really are not optional. You've got to do most of them...possibly even all. (Won't know about 'all' until I reach the end, of course.)

Nia is there twice, Nial and Hugo are interacting, annnnd seeing Vandham makes me sad again.

Basically it's the same as XC2, and every Xenoblade game. You can save before the 'point of no return' and go back and finish things cuz it warns you when you get there if you still have things you want to do. But even if you don't, no biggie, because it also does the standard 'reset before the point of no return' thing after the credits roll, so either way, you don't have to worry about whether you finished everything or not...you'll get plenty of chance if you want to rush the main story and then go back and do the rest later, if that's how you like it. A lot of stuff carries over to NG+, too, but I won't say what unless asked. Both for potential spoilers and because it's a really long list, lol.

Watch all of these characters suffer and inevitably die. I'm getting attached! D: